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Subject: Re: MINIX - From the mouth of the horse
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Date: Sat, 17-Jan-87 18:21:26 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 17 18:21:26 1987
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In article <4564@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> tower@prep.ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
>Second, I would like to present some comparisons between GNU, MINIX, and
>Unix.  I know the facts are straight for GNU, correct me on the others.
>
>					GNU	MINIX	Unix
>					---	-----	----
>
>
>Can one legally restrict use by others? No	YES	YES
>

A small nit.  I just typed ^H^C to read the GNU General Public License,
and discovered that I am required to restrict use by others.

In particular, I am required to require others to require anyone
they distribute source to that I have distributed which "in whole or
in part contains or is a derivative of GNU Emacs" or any part
thereof, to be freely distributed and licensed to all third parties
on terms identical to those conatined in this License Agreement. . ."

I suspect that if I put a copy of the source of GNU in the user
contributed portion of my distribution of FOUTS (Fouts' Own Un*x
Timesharing System) I would be required by this clause to give the
source to the FOUTS away in order to include GNU.  As a greedy capitalist,
I would prefer to just leave GNU off my distribution tape and not take
that chance.